The Risings of the Luddites, Chartists and Plugdrawers

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...looked hard at the speaker, and Baines afterwards remembered the look. It puzzled him then, but he soon after began to understand it. The spies had heard a great deal about the sure vengeance that followed traitors in the Luddite ranks. It was evident, M'Donald thought, that they suspected that spies were in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...looked hard at the speaker, and Baines afterwards remembered the look. It puzzled him then, but he soon after began to understand it. The spies had heard a great deal about the sure vengeance that followed traitors in the Luddite ranks. It was evident, M'Donald thought, that they suspected that spies were in the town. Perhaps they suspected them! That night the two rascals disappeared. A few days after, the shop of old Baines was surrounded by soldiers and he was committed to prison to await his trial. His two sons, Charles Milnes, William Blakeborough, and George Duckworth shared his fate. CHAPTER XXI. The Arrest Of Hartley And Of The.' Murderers Of Horsfall. Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased? Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow; Raze out the written troubles of the brain; And with some sweet oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff Which weighs upon the heart?--Shakespeare, Pity--it is a pity to recall to feeling The wretch too happy to escape to death By the compassionate trance, poor nature's last Resource against the tyranny of pain.--Byron. We must now introduce our readers once more into the poverty-stricken home of William Hartley, who, as we stated in a former chapter, had joined the Luddites in a fit of desperation, hoping it might lead to some good. That his condition could not be made worse he was well assured, for his wife and young family were, at the time he made the rash venture which he afterwards bitterly regretted, actually starving in the miserable house they called home. After the Luddites in this district had adopted the Nottingham system of levying subscriptions for the support of their poorest members, Hartley was relieved by an occasional donation, but the doles were but small and...
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